A multistep process gave rise to RNA polymerase IV of land plants.

abstract：:The genome of Glycine max (L.) Merr. cv. "Dare" contains a chlorophyll a/b binding (Cab) protein gene family consisting of 10 genes. The primary structures of two linked Cab genes (Cab 4 and Cab 5) were determined. A comparison of the nucleic acid and predicted amino acid sequences of Cab 4 and Cab 5 revealed a high d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Demmin DS,Stockinger EJ,Chang YC,Walling LL

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available molecular and biochemical data offer conflicting evidence for the origin of the cyanelle of Cyanophora paradoxa. We show that the similarity of cyanelle and green chloroplast sequences is probably a result of these two lineages independently developing the same pattern of directional nucleotide change (subst...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Lockhart PJ,Howe CJ,Bryant DA,Beanland TJ,Larkum AW

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energised by the protonmotive force and with the intervention of inorganic catalysts, at base Life reacts hydrogen from a variety of sources with atmospheric carbon dioxide. It seems inescapable that life emerged to fulfil the same role (i.e., to hydrogenate CO(2)) on the early Earth, thus outcompeting the slow geoche...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Nitschke W,Russell MJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoding the olfactory receptors of the "OR37" subfamily of the mouse are characterized by special features including a clustered expression pattern, assembly in two distinct gene clusters, and highly conserved putative promoter motifs. Mining the rat and dog databases revealed that these two species possess hig...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Hoppe R,Lambert TD,Samollow PB,Breer H,Strotmann J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing hypothesis posits that morphological changes may be more likely to result from changes in regulation of gene expression than from changes in the protein coding sequences of genes. We have compared the expression pattern of the twisted gastrulation (tsg) gene among five Drosophila species: D. melanogast...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Mason ED,Marsh JL

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) consists of polymorphic frozen blocks (PFBs) that are linked to form megabase haplotypes. These blocks consist of polymorphic sequences and define regions where recombination appears to be inhibited. We have been able to show, using a highly polymorphic sequence centromeric o...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Gaudieri S,Leelayuwat C,Tay GK,Townend DC,Dawkins RL

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalyzed by a family of enzymes called glycosyltransferases, glycosylation reactions are essential for the bioactivities of secondary metabolites such as antibiotics. Due to the special characters of antibiotic glycosyltransferases (AGts), antibiotics can function by attaching some unusual deoxy-sugars to their aglyc...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Liang D,Qiao J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By considering three DNA sequences simultaneously there is sufficient information to recover a full Markov model with three transition matrices from the root to each of the sequences. It is necessary to have relatively long sequences because, for nucleotides, the full model requires 39 parameters that are estimated fr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Ota R,Penny D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two competing effects at two vastly different scales may explain collagen's current translation length. The necessity to have long molecules for maintaining mechanical integrity at the organism and supraorganism scales may be limited by the need to have small molecules capable of robust self-assembly at the nanoscale....

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Layton BE,D'Souza AJ,Dampier W,Zeiger A,Sabur A,Jean-Charles J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the traditional concept for the origin of life as proposed by Oparin and Haldane in the 1920s, prebiotic reactants became slowly concentrated in the primordial oceans and life evolved slowly from a series of highly protracted chemical reactions during the first billion years of Earth's history. However, chemical e...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Oberbeck VR,Marshall J,Shen T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidia are a group of obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites with small genomes. They infect animals from a wide variety of phyla, including humans. Two manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) genes, designated NbMnSOD1 and NbMnSOD2, were found to be organized in a tandem array within the Nosema bombycis ge...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Xiang H,Pan G,Vossbrinck CR,Zhang R,Xu J,Li T,Zhou Z,Lu C,Xiang Z

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The weight-averaged observed/expected dinucleotide frequencies for the sum total of the coding regions of five Toxoplasma genes were compared with the same parameters previously determined for the coding regions of 21 Plasmodium genes. In addition, codon usage in the five Toxoplasma genes was compared with that in the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Johnson AM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the previous three reports in this series we demonstrated that the EF-hand family of proteins evolved by a complex pattern of gene duplication, transposition, and splicing. The dendrograms based on exon sequences are nearly identical to those based on protein sequences for troponin C, the essential light chain myos...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kretsinger RH,Nakayama S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary relationships of four eukaryotic kingdoms--Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, and Protista--remain unclear. In particular, statistical support for the closeness of animals to fungi rather than to plants is lacking, and a preferred branching order of these and other eukaryotic lineages is still controversial ev...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kumar S,Rzhetsky A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports indicate that in laboratory strains of mice, males are distinct from females in possession of repetitive DNA, notably devoid of Eco RI and Hae III sites and rich in the simple tetranucleotides GATA/GACA. We report here that such sequences originated in an ancestor common to laboratory mice, Mus hortul...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Platt TH,Dewey MJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of 22 alpha-amylases from family 13 of glycosyl hydrolases were analyzed with the aim of revealing the evolutionary relationships between the archaeal alpha-amylases and their eubacterial and eukaryotic counterparts. Two evolutionary distance trees were constructed: (i) the first one based on ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Janecek S,Lévêque E,Belarbi A,Haye B

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) were subjected to dehydration-hydration cycles in the presence of 6-carboxyfluorescein or salmon sperm DNA. We found that the vesicles fused into multilamellar structures during dehydration with solutes trapped between the lamellae. Upon rehydration the lamellae swelled and formed lar...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Deamer DW,Barchfeld GL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darwinian theory requires that mutations be produced in a nonanticipatory manner; it is nonetheless consistent to suggest that mutations that have repeatedly led to nonviable phenotypes would be introduced less frequently than others-if under appropriate genetic control. Immunoglobulins produced during infection acqui...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Cowell LG,Kim HJ,Humaljoki T,Berek C,Kepler TB

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codons in four mammalian messenger RNAs (rabbit beta hemoglobin, rat pre-proinsulin, rat pre-growth hormone and human chorionic somatomammotropin) show a predominance of C and G in third nucleotide positions. The C:U ratio is about 2 to 1, and the G:A ratio is about 4 to 1. The possibility is discussed that this d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Jukes TH

更新日期：1978-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we focus on the nucleotide and the inferred amino acid variation occurring in humans and other primate species for mitochondrial NAD(+)-dependent succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, a gene recently supposed to contribute to cognitive performance in humans. We determined 2527 bp of coding, introni...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Blasi P,Palmerio F,Aiello A,Rocchi M,Malaspina P,Novelletto A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life as we know it requires three basic types of polymers: polypeptide, polynucleotide, and polysaccharide. Here we evaluate both universal and idiosyncratic characteristics of these biopolymers. We incorporate this information into a model that explains much about their origins, selection, and early evolution. We obs...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Runnels CM,Lanier KA,Williams JK,Bowman JC,Petrov AS,Hud NV,Williams LD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that globin genes contain three exons with the middle exon coding for a four-helical supersecondary structure responsible for heme binding. Since this portion of the globin peptide chain can be structurally superimposed onto the cytochrome c and cytochrome b5 chains (Argos and Rossmann 1979), it can be inf...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Argos P,Rossmann MG

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has a major impact on the evolution of prokaryotic genomes, as it allows genes evolved in different contexts to be combined in a single genome, greatly enhancing the ways evolving organisms can explore the gene content space and adapt to the environment. A systematic analysis of HGT in a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Paquola ACM,Asif H,Pereira CAB,Feltes BC,Bonatto D,Lima WC,Menck CFM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and completely sequenced a novel plasmid isolated from the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi. Evidence which suggests that the plasmid occurs localized within the bacterial endosymbionts is presented. The plasmid contains the four genes that constitute the entire leucine operon. This fact makes it really uni...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Bracho AM,Martínez-Torres D,Moya A,Latorre A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study dealt with the ability of non-denaturing gel electrophoresis to separate iso-1-cytochrome c with single amino acid replacements isolated from revertants of various cyc1 nonsense mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A total of 28 different iso-1-cytochromes c with single amino acid substitutions of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： McLellan T,Sherman F

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin is a highly conserved protein although many isoforms exist. In vertebrates and insects the different actin isoforms can be grouped by their amino acid sequence and tissue-specific gene expression into muscle and nonmuscle actins, suggesting that the different actins may have a functional significance. We ask her...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Mounier N,Sparrow JC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frugivorous and nectarivorous bats rely largely on hepatic glycogenesis and glycogenolysis for postprandial blood glucose disposal and maintenance of glucose homeostasis during short time starvation, respectively. The glycogen synthase 2 encoded by the Gys2 gene plays a critical role in liver glycogen synthesis. To te...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Qian Y,Fang T,Shen B,Zhang S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the metal-ion catalysis of a number of reactions of the isomers of ImpGpG on a poly(C) template. In the absence of a catalytic metal ion, oligomers at least up to (pG)20 are obtained from the ImpGpG isomers in a 1-methylimidazole buffer. The Pb2+ ion improves the yield of longer oligomers and changes s...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Lohrmann R,Bridson PK,Orgel LE

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental paradox motivates the study of plant mitochondrial genomics: the mutation rate is very low (lower than in the nucleus) but the rearrangement rate is high. A landmark paper published in Journal of Molecular Evolution in 1988 established these facts and revealed the paradox. Jeffrey Palmer and Laura Herbon...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Christensen AC

更新日期：2021-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeobox gene Hoxa-13 codes for a transcription factor involved in multiple functions, including body axis and hand/foot development in tetrapods. In this study we investigate whether the loss of one function (e.g., limb loss in snakes) left a molecular footprint in exon 1 of Hoxa-13 that could be associated with ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular evolution

authors： Kohlsdorf T,Cummings MP,Lynch VJ,Stopper GF,Takahashi K,Wagner GP

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00